Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Standalone Operation
6•7
Main Control Bar
The Main Control Bar is always shown at the top of the POD Farm 2 window, and includes a number
of global controls and “View” buttons. The controls are the same here as described in the Plug-In
chapter’s “1 - Main Control Bar” on page 4•5, with the exception of the Input & Output controls,
described as follows.
Input Meter Master Output Control
The Main Control Bar - Input & Output controls
Input Meter - The meter provides peak display with clip indicators to measure the level of your
selected Source Input(s).
• You’ll see a Mono or Stereo meter here, depending on if you’ve selected either one or two Input
Sources for Tone A & B (see “Choosing your POD Farm 2 Source Inputs” on page 6•8).
• The “colorized” stereo level meters provide the following input level information:
• The green to yellow range of the meters indicates up to -18 dB (instrument level).
• The yellow range of the meters indicates from -18 dB to 0 dB (full scale).
• The red “clip indicators” light up if the input exceeds 0 dB. Clipping should always be
avoided!
*Important! Setting your input levels before they are fed into POD Farm 2 is critical for optimizing your
audio signal quality. Here are some helpful tips concerning Input levels:
• Some POD Farm 2 models are calibrated to receive an “instrument level” audio signal (-18 dB).
Therefore, when any of these models exist in your Tone path, use your instrument or input
device’s volume or gain controls to optimize the input level coming into POD Farm 2 so that
the Input meters remain in the higher end of the green range. These “instrument level” models
include all those in the following categories:
• Guitar Amps
• Bass Amps
• Distortions
• Filters
• Dynamics (excluding the “Compressor “ model, which receives up to full scale input)
• When your Tone path does not include any of the above instrument level models, then the Input
level can be as high as full scale.
Master Output Control - Use the knob and meter here to optimize the POD Farm 2 Tone A & B
monitor output level.
TIP: The Master Output knob & meter control only the ToneDirect™ Monitoring output of POD Farm 2
(the signal you hear from your Line 6 hardware Main & Headphone outputs). Use the Mixer View’s Record
Send faders (see page 6•10) to independently control the levels fed to your DAW software for recording!